Somewhere in Dallas right now, a barista is pulling a shot inside a converted 1975 VW bus, another is roasting beans on a machine built from an old BBQ grill, and a third is steaming milk for a rose-and-cardamom latte in a shop named after a Middle Eastern marketplace. None of it happened by accident, and none of it happened at a drive-thru with a green logo. Here are the names that actually matter right now, the big local institutions everyone already knows alongside a handful of smaller shops worth discovering, every one of them verified open and linked so there’s no guesswork getting there.
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